After finding a place to sit, Kavita observed that the woman sitting in front of her was bleeding from the neck.

On Thursday morning, Kavita K boarded the BMTC bus heading to KR Market at Mallesawaram in Bengaluru. After finding a place to sit, she observed that the woman sitting in front of her was bleeding from the neck.

Kavita (31), a member of Janaagraha who works as an Area Suraksha Mitra with the Madiwala police station, was shocked and lent a helping hand.

TOI quoted Kavita as saying, "I asked her what had happened. She told me her husband had stabbed her with a sickle. I realised she was slowly losing consciousness due to blood loss".

No one came to help Kavita rescue the woman.

"When we reached KR Market, I rushed her to Victoria Hospital and alerted police," said Kavita.

The woman was admitted to the hospital, and later identified herself as Pramila Pasha, a resident of MS Palya in south eastern Bengaluru.

"We are daily-wages workers from Kota in Andhra Pradesh. My sister married a man of her choice, and from a different faith, a few years ago. Pramila is a mother of two daughters. I will take her back to our town. Pasha, my brother-in-law, is not interested in her," he told police.

As for Kavita, she got Pramila's husband arrested.

"Pramila didn't know how to deal with this and feared approaching police. With Kavita's help, she filed a police complaint. Jurisdictional police have arrested Pasha," police said.